| CPC E21B 43/128 (2013.01) [E21B 43/38 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A system for providing artificial lift to wellbore fluids, the system having:
a pump located within a wellbore, the pump oriented to selectively boost a pressure of the wellbore fluids traveling from the wellbore towards an earth's surface through a production tubular;
a motor located within the wellbore uphole of the pump and providing power to the pump;
a protector assembly located between the pump and the motor, where the pump, the motor, and the protector assembly form an electric submersible pump system;
a downhole packer located within the wellbore downhole of the pump;
a fluid discharge located between the pump and the protector assembly, the fluid discharge directing fluid out of the pump and into an annular space between an outer diameter surface of the electric submersible pump system and an inner diameter of the wellbore; and
a solids bypass device located downhole of the pump, the solids bypass device having:
a flow tube with an inner bore;
a bypass stinger, the bypass stinger being a tubular member that circumscribes the flow tube;
drain ports extending through a sidewall of the bypass stinger;
a sealing cap that circumscribes the flow tube, the sealing cap moveable between an open position where, the sealing cap is positioned to provide an external fluid flow path through the solids bypass device, and a closed position where the sealing cap prevents fluid from traveling past the solids bypass device through the external fluid flow path, where the external fluid flow path is external of the flow tube; and
a biasing member that biases the sealing cap towards the open position.
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